[ale] Gotta bea FAQ: Give ordinary users R/W/X access to VFAT partition

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun May 14 2006 09:00, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 14 2006 8:55 am, Jim wrote:
> > I made it vfat when I installed XP. ?I know better than to try to
> > write to NTFS. ?I backup anything important on XP and can reinstall
> > anytime, so I'm not too concerned about using VFAT. ?I rarely boot
> > XP any more, just to run a couple of small apps that I don't have
> > adequate replacement for on Linux.
>
> I don't remember a vfat option... likewise, I keep XP around because my
> wife used to use a photo editing program for windows that she got
> comfortable with, and my HP scanner's native software for
> scanning/copying/faxing is windows based...
>

Windows XP refuses to create an FAT32 partition (vfat) that is > 30 GiB.  
That's pretty pathetic -- I can use FreeDOS on my 250 GiB SATA drive with 
one FAT32 partition, and Windows XP will then *use* it, but it won't create 
partitions like that.

	- Mike
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